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Bug#286609: kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686-smp: No entropy from /dev/random



Package: kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686-smp
Version: 2.6.9-3
Severity: important

Under my hardware the kernel will not generate any entropy. Originally I
opened a ticket for exim4-daemon-heavy:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285371 

However after some searching on the web I found this:

 http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20041127.025945.14f6f8dd.html

and this....

 http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20041130.164827.4eca8420.html

Not everyone is effected. But it might be a security issue for some.
I'll let you decide if you want to retag this as grave or wishlist...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686-smp depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.74     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-rel-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo

-- no debconf information



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